Dubai-based Al-Futtaim Group's has confirmed that its US$3 billion Cairo Festival City development in Egypt will include a hypermarket covering at least 20,000 square metres, although it has not yet announced which operator will open at the site

Panda, a major supermarket and hypermarket retailer based in Saudi Arabia has entered into a contract with Chep for total pallet management (TPM) services at its new 65,000 pallet-slot distribution centre in Riyadh, which is expected to open in March 2007